Scientists have uncovered a surprising new way the body can burn energy and stay warm. Deep inside fat tissue, they found a ...

Researchers discovered brown fat, which keeps you warm in cold conditions, might also hold the key to improved metabolism and ...

Scientists hope to prevent deaths from climate change, but heat and cold are more complicated than we thought.

This valuable study identifies a brown adipose tissue-specific heat shock factor 1-alcohol dehydrogenase 5 (ADH5) molecular cascade as a regulator of systemic aging, showing that ADH5 deficiency ...

New research has uncovered a mechanism that explains why brown adipose tissue is more metabolically active in females.

Dear Doctors: I can’t get my husband and his brother to take hot weather warnings seriously. They’re in good shape and think that since they’re younger (29 and 33) that it’s OK for them to go out ...

Heat decreases the amount of dissolved oxygen in water. Meanwhile, cold-water species often see their metabolism rise in warmer waters ... the public awareness of the water quality issue related to ...

When Sara McQuillen returned to Texas after nearly a decade in Washington, D.C., she braced herself for the summer heat. The 33-year-old lawyer and mother of three knows Texas summers all too well, ...

Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have uncovered a new way that brown fat, a type of fat that burns energy, can ...